Monday, March 01, 2010

Entrepreneurship

There has been a long debate of whether entrepreneurs are made or born. Tech Crunch writes the following:

Silicon Valley investors often have a picture in their heads of the type of person who is worthy of funding: young, brash, stubborn, and arrogant. They believe that successful entrepreneurs come from entrepreneurial families and that they start their entrepreneurial journey by selling lemonade while in grade school. Angel investor and entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis said as much in hisrecent talk to Penn State students. And after meeting Wharton students, VC Fred Wilson expressed shock when a professor told him that you could teach people to be entrepreneurs. Wilson wrote, “I’ve been working with entrepreneurs for almost 25 years now and it is ingrained in my mind that someone is either born an entrepreneur or is not.”

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I have been at the intersection of IT, Finance and the Pacific Rim for the past 20 years in banking, venture capital, private equity and academia. My recent interests are in the application of technology, especially the internet, in emerging markets.